Defying Fate: Reborn Amid a Million Entanglements

The moment the cold blade pierced his chest, Lu Zhao (the protagonist) finally understood the meaning of human greed and cruelty.

He curled up in a corner of the dilapidated earthen house where his adoptive parents lived. Blood gushed from his wound, draining away his eighteen-year-old life and all his resentment. Through his blurred vision, he saw the faces of his adoptive parents, Zhao Dashan and Sun Xiujuan, usually simple and honest but now twisted and hideous. He heard them whisper like demons: “Xiao Zhao, don’t blame us for being heartless... Shen Mo said that only if you’re gone can he securely live as the young master of the Shen family. Then... then we’ll be able to enjoy the good life too...”

Shen Mo! The “good brother” who had taken his place and lived in a wealthy family for eighteen years, then knelt and begged when Lu Zhao’s biological father came looking for him, using the debt of his upbringing to keep him in the mountain village!

Severe pain and bone-deep cold swept over him. As his consciousness faded, he seemed to see Shen Mo’s hypocritical face again and hear his confident promise: “Brother, don’t worry. Stay in the mountains and look after Mom and Dad. As soon as I graduate from college, I’ll be independent, and all the Shen family’s billions will be yours...”

Liar! They were all liars!

He hated them! He hated Shen Mo’s cunning, his adoptive parents’ ruthless heartlessness, and most of all his own foolishness and soft heart! If he hadn’t been mindful of the so-called debt of eighteen years of care, how could he have given up a life of wealth that was within his grasp and ended up like this?

Endless darkness swallowed him.